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so for beginners you guys would say Notepad at first? Or should I try something better?If so list the best beginners Program to use.-TY

I've used various hosts over the years, both paid and free (GoDaddy = bad). The best experience has been with Deluxe Host aka DHost; they've hosted my sites for four years and counting and I haven't had any problems except for this one really long downtime (2 months) about a year and a half ago. But, they're free, they have PHP and MySQL support, and they have a support forum as well. 100 MB, and virtually unlimited bandwidth.If you're looking for something like that... give it a shot. Take a close look at their Terms of Service as they do have a few restrictions (very reasonable!)Side Note: If you don't need PHP/MySQL or a lot of space, use their sister service, XT Host.Oh, another note: If you become a DHost user, and you're running out of the 100 MB space, just ask for more. As long as you're still within the ToS and have a good reason you can get (virtually) unlimited space.EDIT: This is a good host for small sites. If you're looking for a corporate or business site I suggest you look elsewhere.

Nice job =)The date could be placed a bit higher above the navigation, and changed to yellow. I don't know if you can change this, but the URL is too damn long.

there are NO FRAMES. I am using Ajax. I already have a conditional statement that links it to another stylesheet specifically for IE.

Use px instead of pt.

Xhtml only. The html spec does not require closing tags a lot of times. Good programming would expect the tags to be closed even though they are not 'required'.

I don't want a new style, I want know how can I make a navigation menù like that one in the link.

You mean now that you want like...a new style on the link that you just clicked? Then you just use classes.

O.k Now I'm having another issue. The links within my frame won't show the right text size, color etc. They are blue, and are huge. Here is the link to my style sheet. http://www.beyondthecover.net/style.css and here is the left hand side of my page. http://www.beyondthecover.net/left.php The page that is in the frame is here: http://www.beyondthecover.net/list.php. I use includes for both right and left hand side menus. I don't see where there is anything wrong with the style sheet. But then again I've been staring at it for so long maybe I'm missing something. Would appreciate the help thanks.

Nice site!I can't help you out with your problem, but may I suggest you use CSS instead of framesets?Here is some source code you can look at for ideas (it's mine)http://dhost.info/aquatsr/uranium/ss1.css

I don't think you can open something that doesn't exist, but it's been a while since I fiddled with PHP, so get confirmation on that from someone else.

What the <br> nay-sayers always seem to do:

<p>Quisque laoreet sem et orci mattis accumsan. Cras sapien urna, aliquam at, luctus vel, hendrerit quis, tellus. Cras diam justo, condimentum porta, pellentesque nec, tempus ac, turpis.<p>Mauris tempor pharetra odio. Nam magna tellus, posuere sit amet, eleifend et, elementum ut, nulla. Proin adipiscing dapibus felis. Curabitur vestibulum laoreet risus. Aliquam arcu neque, ornare sed, venenatis in, sollicitudin ut, nunc. Pellentesque sed dui.

I have a suggestion: keep the colors for the heading and logo only, and take it off for the page content and menu. All the bright yellow seriously hurts the eyes.Remember, a website like yours is mainly to showcase information, which should be easily accessible and exceedingly easy to read.

Yes, it will but if you don't know how to open some gate at your network so other people can see it, you should use some online stuff.But if you want your own simple (but effective) server, use XAMPP

Simply place all of the possible banners in one folder, have the page read the filenames of all the banners in that folder into an array and randomize the selection of one of those banners from the array. Check the array functions at php.org/com/net, I forget where, exactly they hid all that php info... *wait* ...check at w3schools... !!!*edit*That would be http://www.php.net and try the array_rand() function.

I am starting a new site and I was wondering if there was a way for a site to cycle through or pick an image at random every time it loads. What I want to do is have my header image change anytime the page loads. Just something to get the clients excited about their site. Can this be done, and if so, how? Thanks in advance.

In cases such as the above ^, it's useful because if you have an index page that is old, but you want to keep it, you can rename the extension to .htm, and keep a new version .html, therefore only one will display but you have both available.

You don't need to download PHP to have a free online host with PHP. If you go to awardspace.com, they have everything you need installed.

You're not doing anything wrong. Except perhaps using frames. Are you using frames in this manner:

<frameset>blah blah blah</frameset>

If so, I suggest you look into CSS. CSS can give you a frame / iframe layout without actually using frames. It takes a little more work to maintain, but if you also have PHP or ASP at your disposal, it can be very rewarding.Search engines like Google pick up both your menu page and your main page, but it won't link the two and the two may even have separate rankings. If you want (crude) examples of HTML frames vs. CSS, take a look at my pages below:Uses HTML Frames: http://dhost.info/aquatsr/uranium/v1/ (sorry about the ads)Uses CSS to simulate frames: http://dhost.info/aquatsr/uranium/If you want more info on using CSS to simulate frames (AFTER looking at my code) then feel free to PM me.

hmmm there has to be a wayIf you click "Ctrl" and click with the mouse it opens it in a new window. So maybe make a javascript that automatically has a ctrl function

I've seen it done elsewhere like this too. Looks good.

To become a good web developer and designer, you need only a few of the skills mentioned. To become an overall good programmer and designer, I suggest you start with the basics and work your way up through whatever you find interesting, not stopping at any given point.I suggest knowing:+ HTML/XHTML+ CSS+ some Javascript+ PHP+SQL/ASP/.NETIn addition it may be worth learning:+ UNIX+ Python+ Perl+ C/C+++ Java+ XML+ DHTMLPrograms you should be familiar with:+ Dreamweaver+ Photoshop or the equivalent+ Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, ExcelPrograms you may want to look up:+ Flash+ Fireworks+ Freehand+ Go Live+ FrontPage+ Illustrator+ Live Motion+ Image Ready+ Quark+ Microsoft Outlook, Access, Visio, ProjectIn my personal opinion being a web developer isn't enough. You must also focus heavily in either pure programming, or pure artwork and design. Without one of the two, you're just another web developer.

This is off-topic but nice site layout - very clean and simple. I like it.

I see a scrollbar...btw Firefox doesn't show custom scrollbar colors.

I believe font sizes should always be denoted in pixels, or such. It's like units. You don't leave off units in Science or Math calculations, it's the same thing with code. Specify 10px, rather than just 10.And run your code through a validator, it can't hurt. :)P.S.Generally Firefox conforms to CSS standards, whereas Microsoft Internet Explorer does funky stuff, although I haven't tested I.E. 7.Good luck.